ELC Technologies and FiveRuns have announced a strategic partnership to provide business-critical, enterprise-class Ruby on Rails applications for global companies. Working together, ELC and FiveRuns will enable organizations to develop robust enterprise applications, monitor application performance, and help IT executives manage and integrate open source Rails resources as a competitive advantage in their enterprise infrastructure. “This alliance allows us to provide a combined resource to customers who are serious about Rails for their business; the best Rails programming expertise combined with the managment tools to optimize Rails for the enterprise,” said Olivier Thierry, president and CEO of FiveRuns.

ELC Technologies has already demonstrated the effectiveness of Rails for business applications, having delivered applications for global companies such as Buy.com, Cisco, Live Nation, MediaTrust and TuneCore. ELC combines Ruby on Rails and agile software development practices to shorten time-to-completion for new enterprise applications. At the same time, FiveRuns delivers management tools that allow IT managers to monitor the performance of Rails applications and their underlying infrastructure in production environments. “One of the greatest challenges our clients face is monitoring and maintaining Rails within large-scale enterprise environments,” said Jonathan Siegel, founder and president of ELC Technologies.

Through this partnership, ELC Technologies and FiveRuns will offer enterprise customers world-class development resources coupled with industry-first monitoring tools to make sure new Rails applications operate at peak performance without adversely affecting other enterprise applications. The two companies are collaborating on enterprise Rails deployments, which will be announced at a later date.